Okay, I finally got a callback from Adobe. It turns out that Premiere Pro is not designed to import SCC files UNLESS those SCC files were created in Premiere Pro.

I wish they had told me that up front. I do not think they make that clear in their documentation either — or at least I never noticed that clarification. Adobe seemed to be…

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I almost feel like I’m the victim of a practical joke.

PP utterly DESTROYS my scc files:

When I import scc files:

Center-justification is changed to left.

Italics are removed.

Roll-up captions “blend over” into the captions that follow them, creating typos.

Timing is changed so that 2-second caps have less than 20 frames of appear time.

It makes me…

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It’s not just the timing that is screwed up when I import scc files to Premiere Pro. It also messes up the words! Some of this seems to be due to the fact that the first caption with text is “roll-up,” not “pop-on” like the rest. PP can’t seem to handle that.

Hi. I have created scc caps for many years (using Swift Create) and recently thought I’d import my scc files into Premiere Pro (2022) and see how they look when I play them back there (partly because I’m now using PP to convert my scc-608 files to scc-708). To my surprise, the timing of the caps is out of sync after import. I’m trying to find…

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